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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

University President Tells Students to Grow Up

A university president has finally stood up to whiny students who demand safe spaces.

“This is not a day care,” Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper wrote in a blog post. “This is a university!”

Oklahoma Wesylan is a private evangelical Christian university with about 1,200 students, one of whom was the reason for Piper’s rant

“I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt “victimized” by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable,” he wrote.

“Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them “feel bad” about themselves, is a ‘hater,’ a ‘bigot,’ an ‘oppressor,’ and a ‘victimizer,'” he continued.

Piper took a shot at the University of Missouri as he explained that if students want to be “enabled” and coddled “there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.”

He said his school is not a “‘safe place‘ but rather, a place to learn….This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need grow up

Oh now Lester, you always try to have it multiple ways. You are a coward, yes you are a coward because you hide behind a false law that you feels allows you to cower and hide without taking a position. You use the tired "womans right to choose" axiom to blow with the wind.

Let me ask you Lester, you bill yourself as a well read individual who seeks data that allows him to make an educated judgement...... In your educated opinion, at what point does a fetus become a viable human being...conception, first trimester, second trimester, third trimester or at natural birth? Where Les?

If someone over the age of 14 cannot handle the message of I Corinthians 13, one of the most uplifting chapters in all of Scripture, then that person is going to fail life when a challenge comes along -- such as caregiving one's spouse or other loved one after a devastating and debilitating stroke.

And just how is that person going to handle the realities of aging?

Life is filled to the brim with challenges -- tsunamis of misfortune -- which attempt to make victims of everyone. How one handles those challenges is what matters. Indeed, coping with challenges builds character.

It is sad and disturbing but this kid might have got lucky that someone cared enough to kick his ass. Most schools would have indulged his shallow fragility leaving him shamefully unprepared for life anywhere.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment AOW. This new generation is very sad. Not all but many are like an angry mob dictating to everyone else wile someone else is paying their life tab.We saw it mainly with Occupy Wall Street. What a despicable display that was.

A new batch of Hillary Clinton's emails made public Monday by the State Department indicate the former secretary of state was worried about whether she had overplayed the administration's Benghazi narrative, blaming the attack on a demonstration over a YouTube clip, less than two weeks after four Americans at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi were killed.

More than three years after the attack, Clinton is only now facing questions about how she characterized the raid.

Jake Sullivan, a top Clinton aide, assured the former secretary of state on Sept. 24, 2012 that she had not misled the public on the impetus of the terror attacks nearly two weeks earlier.

True enough, Laura, but as surely you have noticed "WE" have our own cast of scurrilous characters who do great harm to "OUR" cause by the persistent use of invective, mindless belligerence, insolence and sarcasm.

A little BURLESQUE in the classic sense of the word may be appropriate, but a LITTLE goes a LONG way.

SATIRE is more tolerable, but even that can be carried to self-defeating extremes.

"Moderation in all things" is great advice from the ancient Greeks, and applies well to most situations, but, as Lord Acton said, "MODERATION in WAR is IMBECILITY."

Now, now Laurs. That's not nice. Where would we be without idiots like Shaw, and Ducky, or RN? She/He/It is the perfect example of brain dead lefty troll. with more bile than brains. I'm surprised I don't get accused of making her/he/it up to illustrate the total intellectualvacuity of the left!. Ha, ha, ha.

Hands Up Don't ShootYes. This term is directly derived from policing or what we as a, civilized society, call a police force.

"Hands Up Don't Shoot", actually though came from what we call CRIMINALS such as Micheal Brown and this Eric Gardener fellow.

Both committed crimes in and to various degrees. Both resisted police of varying methods.Both were human, yet not educated into how to deal with POLICE WITH WEAPONS TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO, like the rest of us normal civilized people be we black or frickin white, Both committed crimes knowing that they were doing so.

Have the staunch Democrat voters reached the point where no matter how monotone,how discombobulated and bewildered Hillary acts when being interviewed or making another one of her painful speeches, at least 40 to 45 per-cent of Americans will vote for her.What will it take for these buttheads to wake up and vote for the GOP candidate? Hillary still running for President while in a hospital bed for her anyrism/concussion?Maybe when Hillary's thighs call it quits and we all see her debating Trump or Cruz in a "Tennis Ball Walker"?Or what if Hillary is caught on a hot mike calling her security guards every vicious curse word/racial slur in the book? Maybe even calling her gaurds/secret service those MF dogs?:It's just sad to see all this as the world is burning at least 40 per-cent of us are only concerned over free stuff and could care less if we get hit, just so long as the bomb doesn't land on their homes.

Yes, we have devolved into a kindergarten world. How about this concept of 'shelter in place'. wtf? Hey, I'm aware of the risk, I'll go where I please ! What, are you mr policeman, going to come stop me from doing everything I might decide to do that could be dangerous? Wtf ! What an absurd concept! That people accept this!

Kid, your comment is borderline stupid. When is the last time you personally have been asked to "shelter in place?" My guess is never.You would be the first in line to denigrate anyone on the left if they said anything remotely derogatory about a member of the police force. Yet you are comfortable in essence giving the police the finger when they attempt to protect you. Stop being so damn silly Kid.

Stop being so willing to give up your liberties. Let's assume I have a CCW, and aware of risks in the area and choose to go out anyway. Hey, if it's on the street that the SUV is on, Ok, but that deal in Boston where they told everyone to stay in their home because one moslem POS was running around? That's bullshit. You're not part of the solution here. Once again, you are surrendering your liberty to 'the authorities'. Soon, you won't have Any left. Won't that be so nice and comfy for you. And you really think the police can protect you? Wow. Police are after the fact. Only you can protect you.And I don't need a shelter in place order. If I see police cars coming my way and hear gunshots, believe me I'll shelter somewhere.Welcome to our kindygarten world that you people are helping make.

Ducky, as usual your post and comment is borderline ridiculous .You would be the first in line to denigrate anyone on the Right if they said anything remotely derogatory about a member of the Democratis Party. Yet you are comfortable in essence giving the finger to Republican's even when they attempt to protect you. Stop being so damn silly.

This attack was 100% Terrorism in San Bernardino shooting! The people he worked with gave him and his wife a baby shower! He went to Saudi Arabia and came back married! He got radicalized there because his co workers said he started changing when he got back from Saudi Arabia! Started growing his beard out and acting strange! Yes it was terrorism! But you watch Obama twist and turn this around and just call this work place violence HE WILL NEVER CALL IT ISLAMIC TERRORISM! This will railroad his Muslim Refugee Program!There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see.

What Obama and the anti-gun crowd fail to see and understand, or, simply choose to ignore is this; all the gun laws in the world will NOT stop a bad guy from doing harm with a gun and those laws will do NOTHING to keep guns out of their hands.

I have to say, the silence on leftwingnutz blogs today is deafening. If the shooters yesterday had been Evangelicals they would have been active as bee's in a hive today, but alas it was Radical Muslims.....bad optic's for the left.The leftwing blogs have been nothing but quiet today, this attack on American soil not only tarnishes Obama's legacy but also forces them to spend numerous hours defending Muslim's.

Anita Debaisi9 mins · Obama Says, "Don't Jump To Conclusions"Doesn’t anyone else think as I do, doesn’t anyone else think that the leader of the free world, President Barrack Hussain Obama should be doing much more that talk about “crushing the enemy” and how many times have we heard that? Calling for more nations to join forces to crush the enemy is fine. But as I see it, every other nation IS doing something, but his response was that he would think about it!!.And Obama urges us not to jump to conclusions!He refuses to call the spreading cancer what it plainly is... Islamic terrorism. Instead, he can stop it by talking about Gun Control and Climate Change. Obama’s eagerness to take in refugees, rather then insulting the barbarians.LET’S STOP PRETENDING that this is something other than Terrorist. And Hillary Clinton has finally found something else she can apologize for other than “illegal immigrants.”So here is how it will go, Climate Change is easy. It is perfect for Obama to take on. Terrorism, ISIS, IRAQ, IRAN, all much harder, so it’s easier to talk about something else..So let's just ignore them or make speeches about how we are going to end them. Like, and we’ve all heard this before.. ( “we will get these people and bring them to Justice”)Look, ignorance is bliss, people can believe what they want, but now that these barbarians are in our own back yards, it’s a different story! But the sad part is that we can’t even call it what it is! TERRORISM! Are we still afraid of insulting these animals? Liberals can not think for them selves. They are utterly incapable of thought. If they had even a single synapse of independent though, their programming could be challenged. They resist the absorption of information that could cause any bad situations, they are bleeding heart apologists.If Obama doesn't know if this attack was terrorism, after these savages had 12 pipe bombs, tools for making more explosives, suits of armor, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, tools for making more bombs, then I don’t know what else to say! Maybe the terrorists saw an Anti Islam video and freaked out causing them to kill 14 and wound over 21?What next? Maybe we should just privatize climate change, get it out of the Governments hands and get rid of it completely .

thanks for another good post by a good blogger, Anita and Free Thinke are one of the reasons why I keep visiting this blog. It’s certainly NOT for these other the stupid one liners with their vile senseless posts by both the Conservative and the Liberal creeps, who keep attacking each other here. Do you Really Think That You're Funny? I don't.,..

Yes sirree.....that Anita can sure state the obvious with the best of them..... it sure does take a damn good whizz bang blogger to write a three hundred word redundant dissertation saying the same thing she says day after day after day. Perhaps she could be considered an intelligent blogger when someday she could suggest a solution.......hey it could happen.

Well, Anita, some people are just ILL-TEMPERED CHURLS no matter WHAT ideology they think the subscribe to.

What you and I need to learn is that it is not only LEFTISTS who are corrupting and destroying our society.

What REALLY complicates the issue is that many leftists are very kind-hearted, well-meaning people. I know that for a fact, so this extreme simplistic, polarization is as deadly as the Marxian ideology we wish to defeat.

I often remind myself of this rather comforting home truth:

WE LEARN MORE about PETER from WHAT HE SAYS about PAUL than WE LEARN about PAUL..

I took it down since everyone was only commenting on this post. Sorry I don't come by more often FT. I need to make a better effortHere is the link to the Amtrak articleThis was the son of a friend who was just 20 years old

Thank you for the link, Lisa. I'm tempted to say, "Only the good die young," but that sounds too cynical even for an old ex-New Yorker like me. I hope it's a comfort to Justin's parents that he was doing so well, and was so well liked and respected too.

The only "safe space" Americans have a Constitutional right to is to be free of government intrusion. To expect a "safe space" for your views here, in a public forum not your own, is a bit unreasonable. Sorry, Anita. We'll miss you.

Rusty, I hate doing this, but I have to call you out: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?? You just chased away someone on our side. I've sided with you a number of times when Swooshi, al quacko and Pookie Toot-Toot went on a smear campaign against you, but now you've given them an undeserved silver platter. You need to slow down a bit, lest your actions force me to pinch my nose and side with those stinkbombers.

I'm so Freaken tired of hearing these ass-hole Liberals constantly calling for more gun control, every time another Nut- Job or Freaken Muzzie goes out and kills someone. That is the political agenda of the far left. Gun control will NEVER stop mass killings as long as there are mentally unstable and evil people out there. US has millions and millions of guns so even if you outlaw guns all together then the criminals will be the only ones holding. Have you ever seen news in the past year? There have been many killings with mactches and knives and fucking swords. People are so ignorant to think we are ever 100% safe with any type of gun regulation or reform.Get your heads out of your fat ass's and wise up. Get rid of the Ragheads, and put the sickos in the asylems where they belong. And get rid of the guy in the White House. That would be a good start.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, speaking at the Muslim Advocate’s 10th anniversary dinner, shockingly refused to focus on the Muslim community after the terrorist attacks committed by Muslims in San Bernardino and Paris, instead. She reassured her audience, “We stand with you in this.”

Lynch also said that since the Paris attacks, her greatest concern has been the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric … that fear is my greatest fear.” One hundred thirty people were massacred by Muslim terrorists in Paris last month, added to the 17 killed in the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in Paris, plus the 14 slaughtered in San Bernardino, the 13 soldiers murdered at Fort Hood, and the four Marines killed in Chattanooga.

Since Loretta is effectively lynching the Constitution by proposing to suspend most of the Bill of Rights –– for people she doesn't like, namely our still-white majority –– in order to protect our enemies, and always the worst, most undesirable elements among us ––, don't you think it might be time to LYNCH LORETTA and get her the hell out of office? };-]>

Reports say that Hillary's Health, is not so good. She always tired and listless, can't keep her lies straight, she's developing a hunchback, even Bill doesn't want to see her naked body, ever since her concussion she's been extra wild eyed and nutty and okay that cackle laugh is maniacal to the point of being scary.

I think she should be put in a secure "home" before she hurts herself.

Call me all the names you want, al quacko, but you need to learn some manners. Calling Laura a bimbo wasn't very nice. What are you trying to do quacko, launch a War On Women, or are you just marching to NAMBLA's marching orders?

As all the Left's lies and myths explode before their very eyes, liberals are throwing temper tantrums posting their lies about the republican candates of epic proportions...but always seemingly to fail.

President Obama was righ on target using caution and due diligence, and not jumping to conclusions, before making pronouncements. At the same time, he’s doing what a good president needs to do when the nation has been shaken to its core by the kind of unthinkable violence demonstrated in the San Bernardino attacks — he’s out front, calming nerves, and leading."

But the Fright Wingers are not happy with Obama being calm and thoughtful before making any pronouncements. They'd prefer a man like Trump who promises to kill or deport all Muslims, American or not, or to make non-Muslim Americans spy on their Muslim neighbors and turn them into the police even if they even SUSPECT something-- anything. IOW, today's right wingers would like to use totalitarian tactics to solve the terrorist problems. Something a communist country or even a radical religionist Middle Eastern country would do. I've read their blogs and know they really want a Trump or any other maniac to win the presidency and carry out their dream of turning this country into a police state and a country where everyone is locked and loaded, so that if they even suspect someone with a beard is suspicious, they can blow their heads off. That is not an exaggeration, it's what they're writing on their blogs and what they want to turn this country into another Germany.

President Obama was quick to act and voice his opinion on Trayvon Martin or Furguson or that goof ball prof and the beer summit. This shows us what a Great Leader he is.

I feel sorry for those who still hold onto the failed policies of Hussein Obama. They are like blind sheep that would gladly follow him over a cliff to their death . The Democratic party has had seven long years to show us their ideas , it's time to allow the Republican party to lead us out of the disgraceful quagmire that we are in on every front and return America to prosperity and peace through strength.

I watched Obama's talk this evening only because it interrupted the football game but its pretty damn obvious to any thinking person the president is on cruise control, he's just trying to get through until Jan 2017 without a real war starting and leave the shit pile to the next president.

Richard Engel an NBC and MSNBC who does excellent reporting on mid-east matters kind of tore Obama's speech apart while talking to a dumbfounded Chris Matthews. Engel took Obama's speech apart piece by piece and in essence said there was nothing new about the plan to defeat ISIS and most of what Obama said was already being done and isn't working. Needless to say Chris Matthews sat there with that dumb look on his face and the only thing he could say to Engel was "I wish you would have vetted the speech before he gave it."

I must say Will, our old (and I mean old) friend Rational Nation has denigrated into a shell of what ever he was a couple years ago. The poor guy now walks behind Shaw lapping up any droppings she may release and does it with glee. Just tonight he attempted to cozzie up to Boston Piggy by being the first one to tell her he thought Obama's speech was just peachy and just full of "specifics"....specifics which RN failed to mention inspired him. The poor fellow has become a little puppy dog of the left.... a puppy they pat on the head and scratch his ears, which he seems greatful for.

Some commenters here just cant seem to grasp the concept of an open blog.Some like "Anita" likes to write 1,000 word comments that say the same thing day after day.Anita says Obama BAD...liberals BAD...Obama BAD....Hillary BAD...Christ,her drivel gets so friggin old.Then there is FT with his many sock puppets and idiotic poetry constantly crying to Lisa to either change the thread or ban someone. We all realize he's an older chap, but for goodness sake...give it a rest.Now we have Laura Goldsmith, a sock puppet of the first order who hasn't said anything approaching smart, yet also crys to Lisa.....grow the frig up.

No Rusty,, I do get it, I do like the fact that Lisa has an "open blog" and that we can say whatever is on our minds. However, its people like you who say these stupid insults to people like me or Aniita who in my opinion was one of the best writers on this blog , and chase them away. So that all we are left here is pin heads like you and RN and Ducky.and who give the impression to the lefty sickening people that we here are all jerks like you are.So ok, you win, you chased me away also.

Why would you leave, Laura? He is no more than the moral equivalent of a typical schoolyard bully. Such people are best ignored, because they thrive on the negative attention they receive. That shows an obvious defect in their character and weakness in moral fiber. It's perverse, and therefore, not worthy of our attention.

Isn't it amusing that he thinks you are me or vice versa? Silly as it is, I find that flattering, don't you?

Hey FT, don't be too quick to knock Bill Clinton.... a two term president who left office with an approval rating over 60%.Was he a horndog? You betcha. Did he chase pussy? Yes again. Did he get a 20 year old intern to cop his knob in the oval office? Oh yea. Did he ride the internet bubble?.... hell yes. Did he bomb the hell out of Bosnia? You better believe it.Hey, I never voted once for the guy, but he's a damn site better dem president then we now have.

Oh boy was that cleaver. I wonder if you actually went to school to get that smart.No wonder Shaw calls you the Smut Hut.You can't even discuss something with people in the same political party, how in the world are you going to discuss anything with the opposition?

As I said....we were waiting for AG to make an intelligent comment and as if on cue she makes a "cleaver" one, they always make my point.FYI....Seton Hall grad here, I'm sure that's at least equal to your community college effort.

Knowing absolutely nothing about my overall background, experience, or anything else it is understandable why you would make such a comparison shackelford. I only hope you end up doing as well as I have; it more likely than not you will never approach the varied challenges and successes that I have. But keep trying and perhaps you will. I'm sure there is a place for you in the Trump neo-fascist organization if you search it out.

Obama has destroyed this country he said he would. Ignorant people who only wanted a Black President didn't care. We knew he was a Muslim ,and a fraud ,but even members of my own family voted for him. Now tell me how is that hope and change working out for you? Blacks I refuse to call you African Americans because you are either African or American choose one ! He has not helped you in fact he has deliberately hurt you, kept you down ! He wants illegals and Muslims flooding the country ! Who will pay for them you will if you have a job . If you are living on welfare kiss it goodbye, because working Americans refuse to pay anymore !